Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

friendship is love made bearable.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.