I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.
Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
You have to stop living in order to write.
The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.
