We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.