A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.