“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?”

“What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.”

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

“I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!”

“There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.”

“I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction”

“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”