I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.