In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.

Favorite animal: steak.

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

When I was young, boys didn't type.

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.