The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring thei….

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature….

You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue….

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force..

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live ….

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen ….

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the….

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy..

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be cons….

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two d….

"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecu….

In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vert….

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images..

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly..

A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable….

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly..

No one ever expects poetry to sell....

In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. S….

It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping t….

"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last yea….

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population..