There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.