"(What kinds of books bring you the most reading pleasure these days?) NK: Novels that arrive at their coherence in un…"

"All novels are, in their way, an act of resistance, since they insist on the importance and uniqueness of the individ…"

"There is little that matters more to me than my freedom and independence, artistic and otherwise. But I accept that o…"

"Years of writing novels in an instinctive, improvisatory way — without a plan, let alone a destination — taught me so…"

"Everything is an old story, even what we think of as the "self" is just a narrative that our parents began telling wh…"

"The windows in my bedroom face east and have no curtains, and to wake up into that light and a book is joy as I know …"

"All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen."

"The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use th…"

"When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the…"

"Even after the only person whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her…"