I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.

The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.