An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

I don't care about age very much.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. That did not come to me until much later. Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. I had to be that historian. It's not one man's job. It's not one person's job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail - the bravery, even, of the lions.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.