“My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.”
“My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.”
“...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.”
“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”
“What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.”
“You don't understand the things I do, but I do have my reasons. They're not your reasons, so they're not real to you, but they're real to me, and that's enough.”