If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.