If Your Life Just Falls Apart Early

If You Try To Control It Too Much, The Book Is Dead. You Have To Let It Fall Apart Quite Early On And Let It Start Doing Its Own Thing. And That Takes Nerve, Not To Panic That The Book You Were Going To Write Is Not The Book You Will Have At The End Of The Day.

Nothing Had Happened Yet In My Life Except The Need To Get Out Of It.

When You Find Yourself Alone, Or In A Transition, You Dream More. These Are Also The Times When You Read Books.

I Think Writers Worry That You Might Not Exist In Some Strange Way If You're Not Writing.

I Work At The Sentences. Many Of The Things People Find Distinctive About My Writing, I Think Of As Natural.