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

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

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

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.