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I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

I do have trouble with titles.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.