If I weren't a writer, I think I might have thrown myself more enthusiastically into advertising. But, it's difficult to imagine being a diligent copywriter. It would be quite exasperating for me.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.