The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.