I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.