I Will Say I Am

Whatever Extra There Is In Me At Any Given Moment Isn't Fully Formed. I Am Hardly Aware Of It; It Awaits The Next Book. It Will - With Luck - Come To Me During The Actual Writing, And It Will Take Me By Surprise

Writing Has To Support Itself.

Whenever I Have Had To Write Fiction, I've Always Had To Invent A Character Who Roughly Has My Background.

If A Writer Doesn't Generate Hostility, He Is Dead.

The Biography Of A Writer - Or Even The Autobiography - Will Always Have This Incompleteness.