I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.

The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.

Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic. I think the answer is that you start by having her look for her car keys, because everybody knows what it's like.

Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.