In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

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

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

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.