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I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

I like to say that a 'Times' editorial presents a strong opinion based on reality.

I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.