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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.