To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.