Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

I knew it was a risk but what I was after was a novel that is about the feeling that comes with a coincidence in real life - that you feel as if something divine has intervened and has arrived with a message.