Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another..
you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you.
No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real..
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have….
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in ….
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers….
At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in sile….
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going ….
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing,….
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other ….
Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for exampl….
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live ….
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with ….
I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it i….
My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them..
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 ….
In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister..
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….
We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen..
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..