I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.

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 suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

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

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.