I'm not a big fan of overt marketing. I'd much rather just put things out there for people to see. I'm just putting it out there for people to see. If people think this is cool, I'm hoping they'll tell their friends.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.