It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.