I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.