The Way I Think Of My Work

I'll Take Any Life In Which I Can Make Choices And Have Agency, And America Is Not A Bad Place For All That.

I Think About The Story While I Think About Other Things. This Is An Important Part Of The Process: I Look At It Sideways. If I Look Straight At It, It Produces Nothing Other Than What Seem Like Complicated, Brilliant Designs That Fall Apart The Following Morning. In Some Way Stories Mature When You're Not Looking.

It's Not That War Crimes Stop As Soon As A Novel About Them Is Published. Literature Operates Slowly, It Is Always Inching Toward Bliss, Never Quite Getting There.

I Do Believe - And I Know I Shouldn't - That Art Transcends Money And Success And Any Of That. You Can Still Do It If You're Not Clinging To The Notion Of Nobility.

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