If I Represent The World

It's Not That War Crimes Stop As Soon As A Novel About Them Is Published. Literature Operates Slowly, It Is Always Inching Toward Bliss, Never Quite Getting There.

Memoir Implies The Need To Reveal Something About Yourself - To Recount Your Life For Educational Purposes.

I'm A Dilettante By Temperament. I Don't Have Any Expectation.

To Me, The Solidarity Of Readers Is Far More Important Than The Solidarity Of Writers, Particularly Since Readers In Fact Find Ways To Connect Over A Book Or Books, Whatever They May Be.

There Are Many Things I Think About That Never Get To The Point Of Becoming Serious. In Other Words, I Try To Talk Myself Out Of Writing, Sometimes For Many Years, And When I Run Out Of Arguments, I Write.