Swimming Always Cleans Your Soul

Writers, At Least Writers Of Fiction, Are Always Full Of Anxiety And Worry.

I'm Interested In Where We Are, Where We're Going, Where We've Come From.

So In The First Draft, I'm Inventing People And Place With A Broad Schematic Idea Of What's Going To Happen. In The Process, Of Course, I Discover All Sorts Of Bigger And More Substantial Things.

I Never Base Characters On Real People. There Are People Who Do That But I Really Don't Know How To Do It.

If You Ever Read One Of My Books I Hope You'll Think It Looks So Easy. In Fact, I Wrote Those Chapters 20 Times Over, And Over, And Over, And That If You Want To Write At A Good Level, You'll Have To Do That Too.