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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.