Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 19, 1933
The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it ca….
I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate ….
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again..
When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place..
At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one faile….
I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on. But routinely when I finish a book, I think, "What wil….
The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning..
The hard part is, of course, the proximity of death. The number has no meaning as long as you're fit and healthy. But you know that you only have so ….
Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he ….
Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it..
The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you..
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it i….
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandaliz….
He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything on his po….
Each book starts from ashes..
The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10.
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it..
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts..
As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in….