Yeah, 'gossip Girl' Is A Good Show.

We've Been Hearing About The Death Of The Novel Ever Since The Day After Don Quixote Was Published.

Eat, Drink And Remarry Is My Motto.

I Think It's Dangerous To Think You Know What You're Writing. I Usually Don't Know, And Usually I Just Discover It In The Course Of Writing. I Envy Those Writers Who Can Outline A Beginning, A Middle, And End. Fitzgerald Supposedly Did It. John Irving Does. Bret Easton Ellis Does. But For Me, The Writing Itself Is The Process Of Discovery. I Can't See All That Far Ahead.

Reading A Novel Is Just A Much More Involving And Intimate Experience Than The Act Of Watching A Film. I Mean, You Literally Get Inside Of A Novelist's Head, And You Invest Many Hours To Do So.

I'm Afraid That - Not Necessarily Deliberately, But Consistently - I've Made A Kind Of Laboratory Out Of My Life, Where I Mix The Stuff In The Test Tubes To Create Explosions - Possibly Resulting In Interesting By-products. I Mean, Not Deliberately - I'd Be Crazy To Deliberately Do That - Or Maybe Not.