I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.


Paris Review (Spring 1977)


I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else....

I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else....

I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else....

I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else....