People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.