He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

I didn't think; I experimented.

All novels are experimental.