I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no…

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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully...

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully...

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the...

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the...

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture,...

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture,...

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him...

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him...

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary...

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary...

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later...

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later...

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem...

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem...

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on...

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on...

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or...

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or...

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a...

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a...

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure...

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure...

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of...

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of...

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has...

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has...

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is...

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is...

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has...

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has...

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because...

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because...

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending...

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending...

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want...

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want...

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.