We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.
Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.
I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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.