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

I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.

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

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.