We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To

I Didn’t Like It [computer] When I First Began Using It. Where It’s Helped Me A Lot Is In Nonfiction Which Is A Kind Of Different Process. You’ve Got Research, You’ve Got Your Notes, You Can Block Out What You Want To Work On For The Next 10 Pages And Put It In Another File, And Then You Can Kind Of Carve It Into Shape

Was It Only By Dreaming Or Writing That I Could Find Out What I Thought?

Writing Fiction Is For Me A Fraught Business, An Occasion Of Daily Dread For At Least The First Half Of The Novel, And Sometimes All The Way Through. The Work Process Is Totally Different From Writing Nonfiction. You Have To Sit Down Every Day And Make It Up.

My Own Fantasies Of What Life Would Be Like At 24 Tended To The More Spectacular.

The Ability To Think For One's Self Depends Upon One's Mastery Of The Language.