Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are..
I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up call for our country, and we ha….
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?.
I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even t….
As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy..
Just think it, and chances are it will happen..
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thoug….
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it….
All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that..
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this coll….
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 wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say..
When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no,….
What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different ve….
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….
I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name ….
For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity..
He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating ….
In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am m….
Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word..
I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all..