It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.

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

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?