"I am going below to fall on my sword," said the novelist.

"Steve," said the novelist, "I'm getting cold on this deal."

"Some would say that's what you already do," said the novelist.

The novelist must not take out his notebook and say, "I am an expert."

"He was kind of elusive," the novelist said in a telephone interview.

Time, the novelist says, is no simple linear affair.

Audiences, the great novelist said, will find it tedious, and they did.

"It just sort of happened," the tall, bespectacled novelist says.

"I think he sees them as erotically charged," the novelist says.

The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.