All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there…

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.