There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader..

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm..

Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of peopl….

I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate fr….

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another….

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives..

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages..

We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?.

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel..

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two..

Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment ….

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with peopl….

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions..

Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. A….

Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the c….

I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obli….

Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confou….

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very p….

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are..

Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some peopl….

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is awar….