Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.