Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

I'd like to be better at short, snappy answers.

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Heightism is the last unchecked prejudice.