A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.