I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

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

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

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.

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on