I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.