I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

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.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

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

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.

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