There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good evidence regularly for having that faith in self-either with quality goods or with, at least, "good efforts." Working hard will do when inspiration is not forthcoming.

There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.