It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.