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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.
