Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often peopl….

My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived….

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world..

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world..

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been wri….

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives ….

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take….

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and….

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger..