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.

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

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

Writers are not meant for action.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.