With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immedia…

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a nati…

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

The big contemporary novel is a perpetual motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity. It seems to want to abolish stillness, as if asha…

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.