As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion..

The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my stude….

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't k….

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future..

Time is finite and the demands of the imagination and also the demands of the world are infinite, so sort of brokering some kind of agreement between….

[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a ….

I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and….

I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about i….

We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these….

As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers w….

Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may ….

Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really….

Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe….

I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a….

Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new ….

I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real pro….

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of eve….

Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing..

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that..

I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do..

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one..