I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.

There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.