With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences - I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.