“I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.”

“I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer...”

“When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.”