I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don't want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won't mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.