No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

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

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

The writer works in a lonely way.

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

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various