Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.