Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Let some people get rich first.