I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.