The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

I only understand realism.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.