Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.