I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

In America you make your plans and then they happen.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.