Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.
I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.
Writing novels is the most exciting.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
I don't judge myself by what someone says.
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
My audience is going to die before I do.
Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.
I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.
Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
Does Obama create confusion on purpose?
