As Soon As I Got The Nobel

When I Was Starting Out, Science Fiction Was A Little Genre Over There, Which Only A Few People Read. But Now -- Where Are You Going To Put, For Example, Salman Rushdie? Or Any Of The South American Writers? Most People Get By Calling Them Magical Realists.

I Write Because I've Always Written, Can't Stop. I Am A Writing Animal. The Way A Silk Worm Is A Silk-producing Animal.

I Don't Know Why I Still Find It So Hard To Accept That Words Are Faulty And By Their Very Nature Innacurate

I Wanted To Write About My Mother As She Should Have Been If She Had Not Been Messed Up By World War I.

There Is Only One Real Sin And That Is To Persuade Oneself That The Second Best Is Anything But Second Best.