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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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..

If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry fav….

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

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….

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….