I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.