The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.

It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.