It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.