I sometimes read books on my iPad.

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.