Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.

There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.