Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it's just piling up.

To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.