A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
Dad is always hiding in his book.
The act of composition is a series of discoveries.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.