I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don’t get bogged down in it.
Sometimes when I’m really enjoying a book, I’ll read a sentence or paragraph and just think – how can someone’s head be wired in such a way that they’d come up with that?
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that’s in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
There isn’t an aspect of book creation I don’t enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
