To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.

We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.

The key to developing your intuition is developing your self-observation skills.

Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

Our priorities is our faith.

Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.