A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

These are the moments for which we live.

The regional voice is the universal voice.