Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

The real world is horrible.

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.

The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.