Literature Interviews

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”

Dennis Lehane: “It’s a question of interest”

Don Winslow: “I like being scorned”

Gabriela Garcia: “There are pieces of me in everything”

Irvine Welsh: “Failure is more interesting”

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”

Nick Hornby: “You can wait forever for the muse”

Rachel Kushner: “There’s this lens over life”

Salman Rushdie: “The curse of an interesting life”

Sheila Heti: “My life only changes when a book is done”

Stewart O’Nan: “It’s not just dots on a page”

T.C. Boyle: “We are animals”
