I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.