It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.
I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.
My old man is a man of few words.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.
I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
It's funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me - or they read me, having met me - that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books.