But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

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.

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

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.