Writer

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Semua orang identik dalam keyakinan rahasia tak terucap mereka bahwa jauh di lubuk hati mereka berbeda dari orang lain.

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Dibutuhkan keberanian pribadi yang besar untuk membiarkan diri Anda terlihat lemah.

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.