So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

I started writing stories as a child.