There aren't many shy writers left..

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing..

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published..

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash).

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery..

Mine is not an autonomous imagination..

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room..

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded..

I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test t….

You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as y….

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better..

You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as ….

What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city where civilization sort of ended, and therefore….

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or….

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits..

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy t….

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman..

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy..