Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.