“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
“no two writers go about things in exactly the same way(intro)”
“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
“Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it”
“It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.”