I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.

I decided I would never do interviews again.