The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Why is the measure of love loss?

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.