When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad..

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game..

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates bec….

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible..

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment..

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom..

[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its vario….

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts..

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self..

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to..

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic….

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic..