The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.