I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.

It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.

I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. A lot of fiction comes out of a child's feeling of, "Hey, that's not fair."