I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.