Everything Interests Me.

I Write The Way You Might Arrange Flowers. Not Every Try Works, But Each One Launches Another. Every Constraint, Even Dullness, Frees Up A New Design.

Only Keep Still, Wait, And Hear, And The World Will Open.

I Think That If The Novel's Task Is To Describe Where We Find Ourselves And How We Live Now, The Novelist Must Take A Good, Hard Look At The Most Central Facts Of Contemporary Life - Technology And Science.

If You're Going To Immerse Yourself In A Project For Three Years, Why Not Stake Out A Chunk Of The World That Is Completely Alien To You And Go Traveling?

I Keep A Quotes Journal - Of Every Sentence That I've Wanted To Remember From My Reading Of The Past 30 Years.