It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.
You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.