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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that.

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.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

I love the past. I read about the past all the time.

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.