In General, Lives Seem To Veer Abruptly

This Was The First Time He Had Seriously Confronted What He Was Doing, And The Force Of That Awareness Came Very Abruptly - With A Surging Of His Pulse And A Frantic Pounding In His Head. He Was About To Gamble His Life On That Table, And The Insanity Of That Risk Filled Him With A Kind Of Awe.

I Never Experiment With Anything In My Books. Experimentation Means You Don't Know What You're Doing.

It Would Be A Terrible World If Everyone Was An Artist. Nothing Would Get Done!

I Write Different Kinds Of Sentences, Depending On What The Book Is, And What The Project Is. I See My Work Evolving. I'm Writing Long Sentences Now, Something I Didn't Use To Do. I Had Some Kind Of Breakthrough, Five Or Six Years Ago, In Invisible, And In Sunset Park After That. I Discovered A New Way To Write Sentences. And I Find It Exhilarating.

What Better Portrait Of A Writer Than To Show A Man Who Has Been Bewitched By Books?