A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.
I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.
I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.
I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.
If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it.
Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.
As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.
A person always has a chance to protest this or that.
A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.
I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.
Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.
Much of my work has been done in first person.
I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.
"I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so."
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