“I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.” — E. L. Doctorow

To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.