I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written