When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

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