Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves..

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy..

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then..

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader..

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone..

I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form..

Everybody changes, not just me..

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot..

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills..

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all..

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket..

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say..

That’s what you do for family. Anything..

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened..

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs..

The old Lena is dead..

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki..

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings..

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.