My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

I was not scared of anything, when I read my book.