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

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

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.

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.