The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

Certainly there will always be stories.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.