If I Still Lived In Russia, I'd

I Write Five, Six Days A Week. The Thing Is Capturing The Voice. I Feel Like I've Been Perfecting One Voice - In Different Iterations, Sure, But The Russian-ness Has Always Been The Undercurrent.

I Have My Own Dying Empire To Contend With, And I Do Not Wish For Any Other.

A Lot Of The Ways Of Advertising A Book - The Cover, Whether Somebody Sees It On A Subway Or Sees It In A Bookstore - Those Things Are Going To Rapidly Diminish As We Move To An Electronic Model.

We're People Of The Orient. We Know Everything. And What We Don't Know, We Can Sense.

My Mother Cranes Her Neck. Her Ability To Be Fascinated By Things Is Her Best Gift To Me.