There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

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.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

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