My house feels like a proper home. It's very relaxed with a hippyish vibe.
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.
I'm the author of my own misery.
Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still want that golden apple. And maybe it's the reality principle that has hit me. I believe that a career is very different from writing. My career is a certain kind of career.
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.
It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But I don't want it to be meaningless. I want it to actually say what I want it to say, and so I'm thinking about it again and again and again.
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic. I'm not a realist in that way.
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
Im not attracted to expensive things.
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.