And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it.
Continuity isn’t actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don’t use it where you don’t need to.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
I’m one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I’m very good at doing that, but I don’t like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t to make it all bearable.
Also, I’ve already won all the awards.
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
Going off the grid is always good for me. It’s the way that I’ve started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.
I kept starting ‘Anansi Boys’ as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
I want to write a play. I’d like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I’ve written.
I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn’t.
I’m a fairly undisciplined writer.