The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I’ve realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn’t feel a part...

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it’s an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I’ll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for...

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

Eventually he begins to practice his new signature in the margins of the paper. He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to the angles of the N, the dotting of the two i’s....

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.