One Can't Write Without Having Read -

The Novel Moves Like All The Arts. It's Transforming Itself All The Time.

Literature Is Always Trying To Show Other Parts Of This Immense Universe In Which We Live. It's Endless. I'm Sure There Will Be Other Writers Who Will Discover New Worlds.

I Have Never Sought The Reason Why I Write.

I Don't Admire Freud As Much As Some People Do. Imagine Shakespeare Being Aware Of The Oedipal Complex When He Wrote Hamlet. It Would Have Been A Disaster.

The Reader Has To Be Creative When He's Reading. He Has To Try To Make The Thing Alive. A Good Reader Has To Do A Certain Amount Of Work When He Is Reading.