Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

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.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.