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I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.