All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.