The Writer Is All Alone.

Some Writers Can Only Deal With Childhood Experience, Because It's Complete. For Another Kind Of Writer, Life Goes On, And He's Able To Keep Processing That As Well.

Whatever Extra There Is In Me At Any Given Moment Isn't Fully Formed. I Am Hardly Aware Of It; It Awaits The Next Book. It Will - With Luck - Come To Me During The Actual Writing, And It Will Take Me By Surprise

Writing Has To Support Itself.

An Autobiography Can Distort; Facts Can Be Realigned. But Fiction Never Lies: It Reveals The Writer Totally.

I Will Say I Am The Sum Of My Books.