It's all about letting the story take over.

I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it

It's all about letting the story take over.