Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

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

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

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.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.