Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.