If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

The writer is all alone.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.