I get to meet writers, and I love writers.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.

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

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.