If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
The world's treated me awfully well, and I guess it's crept into my work.
Tolstoy does not tell us how things look to the author; he tells us how they look to the characters. In short, he does not use simile and metaphor. (That astonishing assertion in Wood’s review is what got me started reading Tolstoy in the first pla...
No, Miss Palmer. What is bizarre is that I currently have a .
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.
I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time
