Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a youn….

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself….

The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was just someone who pretended to be ….

Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists….

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying a….

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life become….

I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a….

I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willin….

In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because….

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….

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared..

Just the fact that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by such a large number gives some validation to the impulse to stand firm. If we don't, I thin….

In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book of Illusions, maybe - I thought, I….

Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power ver….

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny….

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am..

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environmen….

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels..

I like the sound a typewriter makes..

The truth of the story lies in the details..

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others..