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I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Write as if you were dying.

I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.

I started writing to save my life.

Writing gave me the world.

I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.

I write about living, not dying.