I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some people better than others? Why are some people more moral than others?