It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise..

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one poin….

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actua….

time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing t….

I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable stat….

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad..

Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and pe….

I'm a person with virtually no feelings..

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually..

Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage,….

You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one ….

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and….

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from ….

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda..

The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give appare….

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear..

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. A lot of….