As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.