Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.