The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

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.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.