The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me..

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes..

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are poten….

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using ….

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself..

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that….

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down….

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism..

Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds….

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way..

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty..

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is..

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not….

Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will….

The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun ….

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they'r….

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write..

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding..

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea..

The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games,….