I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

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.

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 am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

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