Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.