The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas...

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

The older you get the more you live in the past