As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

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.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

I’ve always thought of myself as shy.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.