A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.