Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers are providing a kind of template or platform for thinking and imagining.

I'm the author of my own misery.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.