The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

Planning to write is not writing.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

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.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.