Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.