Fear can give you urgent wings.

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.