I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

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

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.