A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.