Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.