The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.

Most of the funeral stuff is going to be done during daylight hours, ” I said. “I’m not even going to be able to attend the burial. Humans get upset when vampires burst into flames right next to them.

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it!

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.