It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.