Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these obstacles is to write your way through them. And writing always works.

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.