“If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happe...” — Jennifer Egan Quote

If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a traditionalist. That is what readers care about. It's what I care about as a reader. Now if I can have that along with a strong girding of ideas and some kind of exciting technical forays - then that is just the jackpot.

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which is what became 'The Invisible Circus.'

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

I think Nintendo is fortunate, having been in this business for over 30 years, to really understand the dynamics and recognize that it's software that drives hardware, and it's new, unique, compelling experiences within software that make it stand out.