...being Alone With Him Was

Writing Keeps Me At My Desk, Constantly Trying To Write A Perfect Sentence. It Is A Great Privilege To Make One's Living From Writing Sentences. The Sentence Is The Greatest Invention Of Civilization. To Sit All Day Long Assembling These Extraordinary Strings Of Words Is A Marvelous Thing. I Couldn't Ask For Anything Better. It's As Near To Godliness As I Can Get.

A Plot Begins When Somebody Has Something To Hide.

All A Work Of Art Can Do Is Present The Surface. I Can't Know The Insides Of People. I Know Very Little About The Inside Of Myself.

In Order Really To Write One Has To Sink Deep Into The Self And Become Lost There.

The Booker Prize Is A Big, Popular Prize For Big, Popular Books, And That's The Way It Should Be.