Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'

Love is recreational, it needs not be aspirational.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn’t good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

There aren’t many shy writers left.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they’re going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

There’s a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a ’30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Tim Thornton’s portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can’t help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

We’ve been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

The intercom buzzes while you’re changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: “Who is it?” “Narcotics squad. We’re soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs.

Delia’s arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing.