We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.
You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.