I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.