I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary compo….

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and….

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my t….

Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as worthy of scrutiny. Tha….

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….

When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any mo….

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance..

Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life….

Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back ….

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people….

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same..

It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing part….

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, al….

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still..

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years..

Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear..

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant..

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-….

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly..

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course..