The writer works in a lonely way.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

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

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

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

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it