Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.
You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .
Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack. You don't feel that there's a great reservoir of resentment in the press as you do in England.