 I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before. |
| The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. |
| Literature precedes genre. |
| Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. |
| When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring. |
| I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. |
| Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. |
| I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out. |
| I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do. |
| I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. |
