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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

For me, music and life are all about style.

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.