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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.