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.

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

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed