I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

I'm definitely post-something.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.