When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won't really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand. Another part of us thinks we'll figure out a way to divert the ocean. This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.