Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.