The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.