Projecting Yourself Until Everything Is

I Tend To Wait For True Stories To Mature Into Fiction. Most Of My Fiction Grew Out Of A Long-germinating Real-life Situation.

I Don't Like Having A Teaching Job - Office Hours And Conferences And Committees And Bosses And All That - But I Tend To Enjoy Teaching, And I Design The Course In Such A Way That There'll Be Pleasure In That.

A Particular Piece Of Music Attaches Itself To The Piece I'm Writing, And There Is Nothing Else I Can Listen To. Every Day I Return To The Same Space To Write, The Music Providing Both The Walls And The Pictures On The Walls.

I Don't Believe In Inspiration. I Write When I Can't Avoid Writing Anymore.

You Don't Want Your Neurosurgeon To Have Doubts About The Meaning Of It All While He Or She Is Operating On Your Brain.