If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
