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I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.

There's a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don't even notice.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.