It's like a light went off right at that moment, ... I could see my project. I knew I had something. I literally started working on it that next day.

He had a great game, but he usually does. He's always right in the middle of the biggest plays.

I slid right behind the truck.

This is certainly the right direction to proceed,

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.