Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.