On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.