At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.