Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

I usually feel something before I know it.

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.