“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”

“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”

“You must understand the whole of life,
not just one little part of it.
that is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing and dance,
and write poems and suffer and understand,
for all that is life.”

“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

“Writing a novel is not very difficult: you simply write ten pages a day for a month and then you have a novel.”

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

“When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.”