Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 18, 1957
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most cen….
Type a few lines of code, you create an organism..
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is..
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind..
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open..
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me..
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states..
I like to travel and connect..
Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases..
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused….
Everything interests me..
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs..
The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything..
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block..
Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race..
Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others..
All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours..
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that..
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living..
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers..
All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense..