Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

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

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.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.