Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.

Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.