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Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.