“I'm writing the next novel in the Thanatology series, entitled the Lurking Man...Thank God for erasers.”
“I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said "Oh really? Neither am I.”
“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)”
“Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.”
“@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.”