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Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Critics established a snobbery toward me.

I'm not a snob.

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.

I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.