“Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?”
“Fuck this. When life gets hard, ask Google. Google knows everything”
“Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”
“I typed in a single word: Vampre. Google asked, 'Did you mean vampire?' I said, 'Yes.”
“As a thinker, and most writers would consider themselves thinkers, your competition is not only the whole world, but it’s also the people of the past, and the people of the future. And the people of the future are the dangerous ones, because you’ll never know how good they are. ”
“You wanna know something," was Dad's refrain while we were growing up, "get a book." Of course,he predates Google, but it stuck with me.”