Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.