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I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

You don't even really need a place. But you feel like you're doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee bar - little places that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and have pretty much disappeared.

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn't exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat.

I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.