I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.