But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.