People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.