Politics Imagined As Direct Agency, Whether By

For A Fight To Be Productive, Or At Least Relevant, Writers Should Fight Over Different Demands They Put Upon Writing (as An Individual, Private Act) And Literature (a Network Of Relations In Which We Are All Involved).

I Have Been On The Margins In Terms Of Having To Find A Place To Live And Getting A Job, But At Some Point, And Before That Point, I Always Thought No Matter Where I Am, That's The Center.

Projecting Yourself Until Everything Is Talking About You Is, Of Course, A Self-flattering Form Of Self-pity

I Long For, Not A Writer's Retreat - I Can Write In Any Situation - But A Reader's Retreat.

My Books Have Been Published All Over Europe. They Read Me There, And I Want To Read Them Back. I Also Spend A Lot Of Time In Europe, Often Meeting Writers, And I'm Sick Of Apologizing For The Embarrassing Shortage Of Translations In America.