Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
I love comic books and always did as a kid.
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
