I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.