Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

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.

I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.