Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.