How many people ask you to come share their life?

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.