The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

I think writing should be about change.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.