He traveled in order to come home.

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

He traveled in order to come home.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.