Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.