When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

For me, words are just words, nothing else

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader