Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

These are the moments for which we live.

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.