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 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.

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.

I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library.

Don’t make miracle your focus

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.