I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

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

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

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.

I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.