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I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.
I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
