I learned my realism from guys like Kafka..

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything..

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weak….

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers..

What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter wheth….

There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world. But as long a….

If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think of it as the ….

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound..

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates..

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges ….

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it..