Full stories are as rare as honesty.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

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