Making Up Characters And Places

Nobody Else In The World Would Look At Writing As Craftsmanship - It's Totally This Protestant Hardworking Ethic. You Go Into This Kind Of Infinite Space Of Imagination And You Fence Yourself In With All Kinds Of Laws.

Sometimes, When You Are In A Really Constrained Situation, It Makes You More Focused About What You Want To Say And Where You're Heading. The Most Beautiful Love Poems That Were Ever Written Are Sonnets, Composed In A Very Constraining Form.

I Never Know The Endings When I Write. It's A Turnoff When You Know The Ending. You Lose Much Of Your Incentive To Write When You Already Know. It's Like Seeing A Movie A Second Time.

I Rarely Return To Characters. My Characters, At Least Most Of Them, Are Much More A Part Of That Superorganism That Is The Story Than Separate And Independent Creatures.

I Write In A Slangy Colloquial Speech That Has Not Been Common In The Israeli Tradition Of Writing, And That Is One Of The Things That Gets Lost A Little In Translation.