The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.