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Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

I feel a burden if I don't write.

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.