Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.

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

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.