The media is telling you who Donald Trump is and what he's saying and what he's doing, courtesy of anonymous leaks.
Time at length becomes justice.
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
One reason writers write is out of revenge.
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.
If we build the people, they'll build the business