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I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world has only been through Facebook.

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment that makes them think.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.