When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it does as you turn the pages of a novel. I would be lying if I said I was a different person now. I am the same person. I would do it all again.