I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

The past was so past it hurt.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.

... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

fLIFE says Loneliness Is Friendly Enemy -shivangi lavaniya

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

We have really no absent friends.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.

I've read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I thought it was also oppressive towards women.

Spirit is the most valuable asset, more than money and any other power.