Many People, Myself Among Them,

Novelists Of A Conservative Or More Purely Aesthetic Bent Hold Up Better On The Surface, But Their Novels Go In And Out Of Fashion According To Relevance Or Irrelevance.

Ignorance And Bloodlust Have A Long Tradition In The United States, Especially In The Red States.

I Love To Write About Sex. You Just Have To Make It Idiosyncratic. You Have To Have A Strong Comprehension Of Your Characters, And Write It From Their Point Of View. It's Really Fun. It's Not Erotic.

A Novelist Is On The Cusp Between Someone Who Knows Everything And Someone Who Knows Nothing.

The Fundamental Condition Of Childhood Is Powerlessness.