Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

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

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.