“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."("The Castle")”
“I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.”
“I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.”
“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”
“I wanted to read a book with a good ending so I wrote one.”