The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style.

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance.