I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.