When You're Writing Fiction, You

I Read So Ravenously That I Would Read Through Whole Categories. I Was Crazy About Reading Biographies. [...] I Think Biographies Are Very Urgent To Children.

Hemingway Was Really Early. I Probably Started Reading Him When I Was Just Eleven Or Twelve. There Was Just Something Magnetic To Me In The Arrangement Of Those Sentences. Because They Were So Simple - Or Rather They Appeared To Be So Simple, But They Weren't.

You Have To Make Sure You Have The Characters You Want. That's Really The Most Complicated Part.

The Willingness To Accept Responsibility For One's Own Life Is The Source From Which Self-respect Springs.

Information Is Control.