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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.