If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.