In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

The best defense is a good story.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.