I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

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.

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

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

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.

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