The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and character-driven, so if I don't know what becomes of people, how can I know where it should begin?

I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.