I've Never Been That Confident.

Structural Dissatisfaction: Returning To Circumstances That Once Pleased You, After Having Experienced A More Thrilling Or Opulent Way Of Life, And Finding That You Can No Longer Tolerate Them.

I Felt More Doubtful Than Usual With 'goon Squad,' Because I Knew That The Book's Genre Wasn't Easily Named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - And I Worried That Its Lack Of A Clear Category Would Count Against It. My Hopes For It Were Pretty Modest.

We Lie. That's What We Do. You're Selling Me A Line Of Bullshit And You Want Me To Sell You A Line Of Bullshit Back So You Can Write A Major Line Of Bullshit And Be Paid For It.

That Adage About 'write What You Know' Is Basically The Opposite Of The Way I Function. I Write About What I'm Curious To Find Out.

Reading Is The Nourishment That Lets You Do Interesting Work.