“Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.” — Philip Roth Quote

“Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.”

“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.”

“I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.”

“My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.”

“It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.”

“My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.”