Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because it's of your place and means that you aren't forgotten; someone's noticed what you have been doing with your life.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.