As Soon As You Bring Up Money,

Novelists Of A Conservative Or More Purely Aesthetic Bent Hold Up Better On The Surface, But Their Novels Go In And Out Of Fashion According To Relevance Or Irrelevance.

Take Naps. Often New Ideas Come Together When You Are Half Asleep, But You Have To Train Yourself To Remember Them.

I Had Spent Years Thinking About One Thing While I Was Doing Another. I Had, In Fact, Prided Myself On Being Able To Do Two Things At Once.

When A Novel Has 200,000 Words, Then It Is Possible For The Reader To Experience 200,000 Delights, And To Turn Back To The First Page Of The Book And Experience Them All Over Again, Perhaps More Intensely.

The Desire To Write A Novel Is The Single Required Prerequisite For Writing A Novel.