Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.