I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.

I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.