“I’ve often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.”

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users’ needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users’ experiences.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn’t saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.