You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

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

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.