Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.