Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.

Not everyone knows what it is to have your father’s rival’s penis inches from your nose.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.