I only understand realism.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

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

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

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

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

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