Where I came from, no one was a writer.
We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?
The novel remains a very special form for me.
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.
In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.