Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

Man is not made for defeat.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.