To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."