To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.