“I know that I have an
instinct towards math and cleverness in structure that I work against, and so I
try to make something … I make this whole structure which takes up a cork wall
of index cards, and then I feel that is the architecture of the book, and what
you do with architecture is that you cover it completely . . . And why I am
driven to make something this complicated I don’t know. It’s just a pleasure
for me always in all kinds of reading and fiction to know that there is some
kind of clock ticking in the background. It could be rhetorical device, the way
that language goes in the book. That there’s a pattern to it, because it’s nice
to feel when you close the book that there’s a pattern to life.”
Andrew Sean Greer in an interview with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW’s Bookworm
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