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I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.