If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

Let's take everything just as it is.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.