I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.