The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

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.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

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

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