"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."

"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."

"I’m not a great man but I’m a great writer."

"I often think that women are the only sex that can really love. We men are too self-centered."

"I wish I could have found another way to live, but I couldn't. I had to write."