Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the...
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race...
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then...
Whatever your supposed politics are - left right - if you put it in a human...
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is...
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing....
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something it hasn't happened anymore.
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words...
The universal human laws - need love for the beloved fear hunger periodic...
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize...
When I was a kid I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very...
If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates...
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do in...
If death is in the room it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that...
The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas...
I'm finding as I get older that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I...
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy...
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that even within...
My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something...
We try we fail we posture we aspire we pontificate - and then we age...
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
