That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.