You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

[I remember going] to a hotel gym at six o'clock in the morning, and the television was on, and it's some drama in which two men have clearly kidnapped a woman. They're interrogating her, and they put a plastic bag over her head. They're suffocating her, and I'm thinking, It's six o'clock in the morning! Why does anybody need to see this? How can I find the off switch?

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

I'm very comfortable writing.

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.