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.

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

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.

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

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

It's all about letting the story take over.

One does not consider style, because style is.