But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.

I was quite surprised to find out all the places that he knew And so I asked the townfolk if his stories were true They said- Old John was born here, he's live…

'Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought'.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.