A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

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.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.