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I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

I'm not a great writer.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.