In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is about the experiment, when it's always the opposite - any "experimentation" is dictated by the material.

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.