That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

There is always room for at least two truths.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.