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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.