I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.
From Ethan Canin
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.
I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.
I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.
The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.
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