My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.