Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.