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

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

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

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.