Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.