... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.