Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.