I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.