A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something t….

Being a slow reader would normally be a deficiency; I found a way to make it an asset. I began to sound words and see all those qualities - in a way ….

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map..

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense..

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking….

I'm kind of a distractible guy..

If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice.….

To write you had to read so I backed into reading..

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it..

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing..

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath i….

What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Rusk….

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me somethin….

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everyt….

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known..

The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't mean that we're fascinated by the….

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle..

Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if y….

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was..

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a g….