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There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.