Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.