If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

I always had good students.