If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

I am a totally public person.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.