You don’t become a writer to pay the rent. If you do make money at writing, then you’re not only a writer, you gain an extra word in your title, and you become a “lucky writer.”
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People think that spirituality is about beliefs, but it isn’t. It’s about looking, as deeply as possible, into the believer. If literature has a function, for me, this approaches it. [Continue]
I think our current economic system is a shambles and a sham. We're all making do as best we can. [Continue]
When my latest book got copy edited and type-set, spelling and punctuation were fully Americanized — and it just didn’t work. I had to accept, albeit a little grudgingly, what an English writer I am. [Continue]
Here in America we are like a people asleep and dreaming on top of something we both know and don't know is an enormous weapon aimed at the whole world, including every one of us. [Continue]
Literature's essential moral duty is to make us feel more than we did before, to induce the radical empathy that helps us imagine the suffering and exaltation of other human beings. [Continue]
The individual is a lie. Or, rather, a noble ideal. I don't believe such a being exists, Enlightenment be damned. [Continue]
Writers all have their perfect reader, their imaginary bibliomanic, a snufalupagus in bifocals. [Continue]
America seems to be everywhere; we are living in an American reality. Which makes me want to read anything but American fiction, however ignorant this sounds. [Continue]
