“I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.” — Deborah Eisenberg

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.