There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write - I wrote 'Black Cloud' in six weeks - it opened up a whole new world for me.
I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.
From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
My life is just my life. When you're living it, it's just normal.
My whole life is my work.
My life now could not be better.