I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.