“One has to live a life that creates a writer.”
“My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want,one conscious decision at a time.”
“Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited...”
“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating a world from scratch.”
“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”
“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”