Literature Interviews

Ayesha Harruna Attah: “I’m in constant conversation”

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”

Coco Mellors: “You have to be present in the process”

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”

Spencer Bailey: “It’s a really careful act”

Stephen Fry: “It releases you from loneliness”

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”

Yann Martel: “You have to open yourself”
