Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?