They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.