Having a voice unlike another means you've found yourself as a writer.

Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to art for the market's sake. It's a necessity, somewhat, for some people.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online literature since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g.