Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.