It's Kind Of A Reflex For Me

Making Up Characters And Places And Plots, Unlike Fixing Your Plumbing Or Doing Dishes, Is Anything But Practical Or Rational. I Write What Needs To Be Written The Way That Seems Genuinely Right.

In America, Where Writers Are Preoccupied With The Craft Of Writing, I Always Try To Introduce This Concept Of The Badly Written Good Story. Turning The Hierarchy Around And Putting Passion On Top And Not Craft, Because When You Just Focus On Craft, You Can Write Something That Is Very Sterile.

If You Scare Somebody Enough, They Stop Being Rational.

For Me Taking A Pragmatic Decision When It Comes To Art Is Almost An Oxymoron. The Reason I First Picked Up A Pen And Wrote A Story Had Nothing Pragmatic In It.

People Usually Don't Allow You To Cut Off Their Tongue.