“I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.”
“I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.”