I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions: Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

For a novelist to create character, I think, takes a sharp objective eye but also an intuitive intelligence, a receptiveness, a wilingness to make oneself blan…

I think all novelists particularly are engaged in the creation of Tulpas. That is exactly what they are doing. Ahh... they are trying to create characters that…

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.