On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

‰ЫПI like to work longhand, actually; the only problem is that, once I get jazzed, I can‰ЫЄt keep up with the lines forming in my head and I get frazzled.‰Ыќ

‰ЫПSomeone ... once wrote that all novels are really letters aimed at one person. As it happens, I believe this. I think that every novelist has a single ideal reader; that at various points during the composition of the story, the writer is thinking, ‰ЫчI wonder what he/she will think when he/she reads this part?‰ЫЄ‰Ыќ