Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead..
In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in m….
As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true..
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stori….
Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and I can't get rid of it, when I try not ….
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resis….
In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the….
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it..
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence..
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it..
I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same..
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do..
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names..
I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind ….
...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died..
I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious..
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone..
Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who….
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishin….
He would conclude that nothing was real except chance..