I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be saying no, Molly. How about no? Saying no is great.

Obviously the Internet makes everything easier - you get people's addresses and so on and everything seems much more accessible.

A book coming out into the world can be a harsh, harsh time. And your feelings are on the line. Everything that publication is about is really not what your writing is about. Your writing is coming out of something else, and publication and being in the public are something else. And those of us who have published, in whatever way we're published, are very fortunate.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.