A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.