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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.