I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.