Quote Detail

I truly don__ understand why at every Q and A, someone always asks, __o you have a routine?_ or __o you write every morning?_ Why those questions remain interesting, I really have no idea. But since no one__ putting a gun to their head to ask them, they must compel. They__e probably necessary on a symbolic level more than a literal one, as people cobble together an imagination of what a life devoted to __aking_ might be like.[I think people want a path to follow. They want a checklist so they can say, __lright cool, so if I get up at six and I write for this long and I watch this film and I do that__It__ weird, because I might have wanted that, too. I used to dance in New York. My Lower East Side days. Modern dance, or whatever. One thing I learned as a dancer was that people learn combinations different ways. Some people, if they get the right side, they can also get the left side right off the top of their head. Some people need to be taught both right and left. Some people count, some people never count, you know? I noticed then that, for me, it was really watching the whole person dancing, trying to take in the whole combination at once, that helped me learn it. I think I__ the same way as a reader__ like to take in the whole book, not getting too specific about how they did it, but ride the bigger example.I mean, at the end of the day, the answer to the question __ow did you do it?_ is right there, on the page. They__e showing you how they did it, by doing it. Maybe it__ different with art, when you don__ know if someone had all their sculptures knitted or welded by elves somewhere, but with writing, the answer to the question __ow do you write a book like this?_ is usually, __ike this_ [points to book].