Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

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

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.