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

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

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

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

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.