“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.”

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”

“Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?”

“I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.”

“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.”