Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.