I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing...
If my career continues along its current arc people will probably look at me...
I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the...
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes...
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I...
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the...
At the risk of appearing disingenuous I don't really think of myself as...
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just...
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I...
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
