Often It Doesn't Occur To

This (writing) Is The Love Of Your Life. It's What I Want To Do When I Wake Up. Nothing Feels So Absorbing, So Fulfilling.

Fiction Is The Only Way To Redeem The Formlessness Of Life

I Would Never Write About Someone That Forced Me To Write At A Lower Register Than What I Can Write.

I Would Say That The Writers I Like And Trust Have At The Base Of Their Prose Something Called The English Sentence. An Awful Lot Of Modern Writing Seems To Me To Be A Depressed Use Of Language. Once, I Called It "vow-of-poverty Prose." No, Give Me The King In His Countinghouse. Give Me Updike.

Style Isn't Something Added On; It's Intrinsic To The Perceptions And The Way You See Life.