For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There is no more somber ene….

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an e….

I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way..

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with B….

I'm listening to Gogol Bordello, which is totally random, but I love him. Just finished the new Joan Didion book, Blue Nights, which I loved. I haven….

You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks..

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature..

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book..

What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assis….

One must as willingly be nothing, as something..

It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish….

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books..

I like to do something I fear..

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly ….

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of..

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable..

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular..

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you….

I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken..

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example..