Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

I'm proud of doing well at school and if there'd been any money I would have gone to college.

There's a lot of guys that play the game of basketball for the money, for the fame.