I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.