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Literature has become my life.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

Our literature is in great shape.