I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A.

I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.