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Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and... →
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and... →
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the... →
I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is... →
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your... →
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky... →
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism... →
The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.
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