Life is a means of extracting fiction.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.