Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with ….
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….
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….
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….
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.….
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 ….
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….
I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away..
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, strugg….
You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'.
The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle..
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their mea….
I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happe….
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audienc….
I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else..
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a litt….
I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something tha….
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads..
I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't….
Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place..
Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life..