Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and eithe….

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being..

Tall people have a real advantage in the world..

A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what h….

He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell….

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering..

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel r….

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the wor….

A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. ….

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will n….

Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyo….

The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focu….

Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about p….

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you ….

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal..

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars..

For many years I didn't have health insurance..

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for..

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in whi….

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht..

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say..