Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities presented by their substance and form.
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.
When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.
I've always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book 'pamphlet' format and then collecting that work in book form, so I've just stuck with it.
Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
