I Think The Wave Of Social Media

I Sometimes Think That I Can't Do The Bigger Thing That [zadie Smith] Do So Beautifully, As In Swing Time, With So Much World In It And So Much Rapturous Paint Thrown Around. I Don't Think It Would Be Possible To Write A Book On That Scale With As Much Ocd As I Have.

With Nonfiction, I Go In Trying To Be Really Honest About What My Preconceptions Are.

In The Moment Of Reading, The Writer Comes Up To The Surface And The Reader Comes Up To The Surface And They Kiss, Like Two Fish. That Actually Does Happen.

Fiction Is Open To Whoever Comes In The Door, As Long As You Come In Energetically.

Irony Is Just Honesty With The Volume Cranked Up.