To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

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.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.