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Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.

I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.