A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.
All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.
Books were in my family - books were my family.
Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.
Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.
The M.F.A. Is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.
The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.
Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.
You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
