A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?