People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.