Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

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

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

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