I did not write those letters. This has been a hoax that I've had nothing to do with. I'm sorry it's gone on as long as it has.

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'

Here's your quote: 'Thomas Pynchon loved this book, almost as much as he loves cameras!' Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today…

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

Every single act either weakeneth or improveth our credit with other men; and as a habit of being just to our word will confirm, so a habit of too freely dispe…

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too…