First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups, who have cooperated more closely in this domain than in any other.

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.