"I'm not interested in being popular. I'm interested in being free."

"A writer’s life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don’t have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it."

"A good book is a good book is a good book. And if it's a bit of a page-turner, so much the better."

"I've always been drawn to characters who are outsiders, who don't fit in."

"I mean, how many books does one have to write before one is allowed to be a little bit boring?"