In America you make your plans and then they happen.

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

In America you make your plans and then they happen.