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.

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.

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.

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

I get to meet writers, and I love writers.