It's Like Standing On The

At The Very End Of A Book I Can Manage To Work For Longer Stretches, But Mostly, Making Stuff Up For Three Hours, That's Enough. I Can't Do Any More. At The End Of The Day I Might Tinker With My Morning's Work And Maybe Write Some Again. But I Think Three Hours Is Fine.

So In The First Draft, I'm Inventing People And Place With A Broad Schematic Idea Of What's Going To Happen. In The Process, Of Course, I Discover All Sorts Of Bigger And More Substantial Things.

Being Famous As A Writer Is Like Being Famous In A Village. It's Not Really Any Very Heady Fame.

I'm Interested In Where We Are, Where We're Going, Where We've Come From.

Good Writing Of Course Requires Talent, And No One Can Teach You To Have Talent.