I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
“I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.”
“It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.”