Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.