Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.