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This Idea That A Book Can Either Be About Character And Feeling, Or About Politics And Idea, Is Just A False Binary. Ideas Are An Expression Of The Feelings And The Intense Emotions We Hold About The World.

I Keep A Quotes Journal - Of Every Sentence That I've Wanted To Remember From My Reading Of The Past 30 Years.

I Think That If The Novel's Task Is To Describe Where We Find Ourselves And How We Live Now, The Novelist Must Take A Good, Hard Look At The Most Central Facts Of Contemporary Life - Technology And Science.

The Thing That Makes Reading And Writing Suspect In The Eyes Of The Market Economy Is That It's Not Corrupted.

I Write The Way You Might Arrange Flowers. Not Every Try Works, But Each One Launches Another. Every Constraint, Even Dullness, Frees Up A New Design.