An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

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

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.