Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not..
All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works..
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he w….
You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth..
I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind ….
We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen..
I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were….
He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, an….
In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister..
It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will ….
It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not..
[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer..
Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosit….
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a….
It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to mak….
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; n….
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all..
I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the ….
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm,….
I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets,….