Planning To Write Is Not Writing.

I Worry About Images. Images Are What Things Mean.

When You're Working Well, You Don't Do Research. Whatever You Need Comes To You.

A Novel Is A Printed Circuit Through Which Flows The Force Of A Reader's Own Life.

It Is The Immigrant Hordes Who Keep This Country Alive, The Waves Of Them Arriving Year After Year.... Who Believes In America More Than The People Who Run Down The Gangplank And Kiss The Ground?

The Historian Will Tell You What Happened. The Novelist Will Tell You What It Felt Like.