Technique is of less interest than character and story..

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God..

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe..

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead..

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I hav….

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..

I'm just going to be me..

The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg ….

Death makes sad stories of us all..

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still ….

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all..

I hope we have American-topias..

I am competitive, and I like to be as competitive as possible in anything I do..

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin..

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes..

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and kept going. If I could sing or paint, I would..

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell..

While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolsto….