I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would write non-fiction, they often accused me of exaggeration and fictionalization.

A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.