you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.

I'm not a character in any of my books.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.