In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

Is anything accidental?

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.