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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.