Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 19, 1933
I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Fo….
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown..
I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life..
Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material..
Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No..
The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?.
It's best to give while your hand is still warm..
When he is sick, every man wants his mother..
Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not..
Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be….
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it..
Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serio….
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an….
How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?.
Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Wh….
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mas….
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper..
There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame..
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction..
Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway ….
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else cou….