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.

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.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

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.

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

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

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.