Quotes about "Parenting in Digital Age"

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions. ”

English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control. ”

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you. ”

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. ”

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time. ”

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. ”

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. ”

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time. ”

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time. ”

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me. ”