I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

My dad is a workaholic so I take after him in this respect.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.