Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were going to be bombed and killed. My imagination is my biggest plus and my worst minus.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.

I'm still writing in my old age. And still loving it. It fills my days. Writing is my salvation. I just get up in the morning, and I'm in this world that I scratch out and begin again and write over - and then suddenly it's lunchtime, and I'm back.