I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
I have ideas that I will probably never write now.
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.
A lot of writing is thinking.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.