... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an….

Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by its nature. Of course, read a lot,….

Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resi….

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedspri….

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack the….

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men..

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar..

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened..

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world ope….

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf..

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creat….

We've learned to see the world in gasps..

Support your libraries... or else!.

It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Sid….

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose..

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love..

People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fi….

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening ….

Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of th….

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it..

Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race be….