I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything