I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

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.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.