Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Death steals everything except our stories.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.