I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

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.

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.