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Great minds sink alike, right?
Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
There aren't many shy writers left.
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
It's the cynics who never get married.
I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.
Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.
There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.
Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.
Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.
I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'
"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.
I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.
I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.