The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

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