Writing fiction is for me a fraught business an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that...
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
To free us from the expectations of others to give us back to ourselves -...
Before I'd written movies I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot...
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I...
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the...
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only...
A belief in God is vitally important not just in show business but...
To me the print business model is so simple where readers pay a dollar for...
It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff...
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not...
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar but am I expanding...
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a...
It is an immutable law in business that words are words explanations are...