I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.