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

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

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

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

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

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.