I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.