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 like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans