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I'm Pretty Much A 9-to-5 Kind Of Guy. I Usually Get To Work About 8 In The Morning, And I Work Until 4 Or 5, And Sometimes I Work On Saturday And Sunday Mornings. Pretty Much I Keep The Same Hours As An Accountant Or Clerk Or Whatever.

When I'm Writing Fiction I'm Thinking, God, This Is So Hard - I Have To Make All This Stuff Up! I Wish I Were Writing A Nonfiction Book Where All The Facts Are Laid Out And I Don't Have To Be So Much At Sea.

A Human Being Creates Complexity By Writing A Novel On The Surface Of Paper; A Weather System Creates Complexity By Writing Waves On The Surface Of An Ocean. What Is The Difference Between The Information Carried In The Words Of A Novel And The Information Carried On The Waves Of The Sea? Listen, And The Waves Will Speak, And Someday, I Tell You, You Will Write Your Thoughts On The Surface Of The Sea.

The Mandalas Were Meant To Be Objects Of Contemplation, Aids To Meditation, Their Proportions Magically Balanced To Purify And Calm The Mind. To Stare At A Mandala Was To Experience, If Only Briefly, The Nothingness That Is At The Heart Of Enlightenment.

I Would Have To Say The Novel 'war And Peace' Influenced Me More Than Any Other Book. This Greatest Of Novels Demonstrated To Me The Enormous Power Of Literature And Fired Me Up With A Desire To Become A Writer, To Participate In What I Considered Then To Be The Greatest Of All Endeavors.