I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts..

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time..

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?.

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables….

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time..

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan..

All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart....

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved..

I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they described the world I live in, ….

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to ….

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three ….

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different..

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another..

Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object to look good. I won't believe in….

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his..

Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive..

You can't be deep without a surface.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me..

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey….

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial a….

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced..