Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.