I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time ago.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.