I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.