Alumiie

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.”

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

“My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”