I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.