Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

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

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

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

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

It's funny to be a critic.