I know that what's happened in the election has changed American reality, and I understand that I have to change with it. I have to rethink how I liv….

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 started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose.….

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,….

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyon….

Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten….

I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirel….

Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art ….

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..

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is wha….

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit….

Every man is the author of his own life..

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away..

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy….

In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics. Three times two and ….

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….

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it..

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are..

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.….

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I ….

Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I….