Being Famous As A Writer Is Like

I'm Always The One With The Activist Friends. I've Been An Activist Very Little.

The Great Thing About Using The Past Is That It Gives You The Most Colossal Freedom To Invent. The Research Is Necessary, Of Course, But No One Writes A Novel To Dramatically Illustrate What Everybody Already Knows.

My Greatest Pleasure Is To Invent. My Continual Mad Ambition Is To Make Something True And Beautiful That Never Existed In The World Before.

I Think That Thing About The Destruction Of The World Is There All The Time, It's There Every Day When We Look Out The Window.

It's True: One Of The Things That I've Always Thought About American Society Is That You Never Get The Sort Of Natural Politicisation Of Class Consciousness That You Would Get In The United Kingdom Or Even In Australia.