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I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail.

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

I believe in focusing on details.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.