The trick of creating character is to try to see all people, even unsympathetic ones, without projecting one's own personality and values on them.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading a…

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt…

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even …

All for myself the sigh would swell, The tear of anguish start; I little knew what wilder woe Had filled the Poet's heart. I did not know the nights of gloom, …

I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk...

The Herr Doctor does not know about peoples.