'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.
It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.