Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.