I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.