A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
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.
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.