“It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.”

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”

“From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.”

“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”

“For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.”