Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

All of my books come from pain.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.