Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

Short attention span is the new avant-garde. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry. David Markson feels particularly relevant now. Twitter is the revenge of modernism.

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.