When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.