I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.