First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.