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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?