Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?