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I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.

Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.

I'm happy - despite things that might have happened in my life.

Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I remember writing the ending to 'Happier at Home.' I wrote the entire book to build to that ending 'now is now,' and what I had to say was very abstract, and yet I felt satisfied that I managed to say what I wanted to say.