It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off..

We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I t….

Discovery is the joy..

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there..

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will..

You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shamef….

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, ….

That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by other….

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court..