Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

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

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.