I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.