If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.

I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

People aren't doing whodunits anymore.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.