Novels Are Like Paintings, Specifically

It Occurs To Me That We Allow Ourselves To Imagine Only Such Messages As We Need To Survive.

You Think You Have Some Stable Talent Which Will Show No Matter What You're Writing, And If It Doesn't Seem To Be Getting Across To The Audience Once, You Can't Imagine That Moment When It Suddenly Will.

We Write To Discover What We Think.

Before I Started Working On A Computer, Writing A Piece Would Be Like Making Something Up Every Day, Taking The Material And Never Quite Knowing Where You Were Going To Go Next With The Material. With A Computer It Was Less Like Painting And More Like Sculpture, Where You Start With A Block Of Something And Then Start Shaping It.

The Wind Shows Us How Close To The Edge We Are.