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Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.