When My Books Were Translated, It Was

According To Gur's Theory Of Boredom, Everything That Happens In The World Today Is Because Of Boredom: Love, War, Inventions, Fake Fireplaces - Ninety-five Percent Of All That Is Pure Boredom.

Sometimes, When You Are In A Really Constrained Situation, It Makes You More Focused About What You Want To Say And Where You're Heading. The Most Beautiful Love Poems That Were Ever Written Are Sonnets, Composed In A Very Constraining Form.

I Usually Start Writing Stories From Tone And Not From Content - Kind Of Like People Who Create Music And Invent The Lyrics Later On.

The Amazing Thing About An Artistic Collaboration Is That It Is As Intense And Intimate As A Romantic One. Sometimes Even More So.

My Mother, For Example, Told The German Officer Not To Kill Her. She'd Make It Worth His While. And Then, When They Were Doing It, She Pulled A Knife Out Of Her Belt And Sliced Open His Chest, Just Like She Used To Open Chicken Breasts To Stuff With Rice For The Sabbath Meal.