There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I'm not in the service business.