In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

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

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

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal