Literature Interviews
Benjamin Moser: “What is too much experience?”
Bret Easton Ellis: “You can’t lie anymore”
Charles Yu: “Reality is taking notes from fiction”
Chuck Palahniuk: “You can’t just be a spectator”
Colson Whitehead: “All our former selves are still there”
David Doubilet: “My favorite picture is the one I haven’t taken”
David J. Peterson: “Does it fit the culture?”
David Sedaris: “What do I write about now?”
Deborah Landau: “The familiar is made strange again”
Dennis Lehane: “It’s a question of interest”
Don Winslow: “I like being scorned”
Gabriela Garcia: “There are pieces of me in everything”
Garry Kasparov: “There’s no more room for bluffs”
Gerhard Steidl: “I turn everything upside down”
Ira Glass: “All you can do is make work”
Irvine Welsh: “Failure is more interesting”
Jon Ronson: “I’m interested in hypocrisy”
Jonathan Lethem: “Be a dark horse!”
Jonathan Safran Foer: “You have to waste a lot to have a little”
Kazuo Ishiguro: “I’ll take as long as I need”
Lily King: “You don’t know until you start writing”
Maja Lunde: “I never start with a message”
Margo Jefferson: “Criticism demands authority”
Michael Pollan: “We vote with our forks”
Miranda July: “I am making more room in the world”
Nick Hornby: “You can wait forever for the muse”
Rachel Kushner: “There’s this lens over life”
Robert Harris: “Power is of endless interest”
Salman Rushdie: “The curse of an interesting life”
Sam Harris: “Mindfulness is being divorced from its real potential”
Sheila Heti: “My life only changes when a book is done”
Stewart O’Nan: “It’s not just dots on a page”
Susan Goldberg: “It’s about doing the right thing”
Sylvia Earle: “Everything on earth connects”
T.C. Boyle: “We are animals”
Tony Wheeler: “I want to try somewhere different”
