I am obsessed by love, by the need of it and the near impossibility of it.
That is the mystery about writing, it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times when the heart is cut open.
I would be so lonely on earth if I didn’t have the possibility and freedom to write. I will go to my grave changing a word. And there is always the absolutely right word.
I feel strongly about childhood, truth or lies, and the real expression of feeling.
It’s assumed that in order to be a serious writer, you have to look like the back of a bus.
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.
Whether a novel is autobiographical or not does not matter. What is important is the truth in it and the way that truth is expressed.