I Don't Hold With The Notion That

The Problem With Growing Up In A Cafe Was The Cafe Never Closed, My Parents Worked Every Day Of The Year From Morning To Night. So It Was A Big Menagerie Of Kids, Business And Cooking!

The Best Thing About Writing Has Been The Writer's Life, The Sense Of Being Expressed, The Ownership Of The Day, The Entirely Specious Sense Of Freedom We Have, However Slave We Are To Some Boss Or Other. I Wouldn't Trade It For Any Other Life.

You Know, You Lose A Lot Of Social Skills If You’re A Writer. You Spend Too Long Alone. And It’s Forced Me To Address That.

There's This Sense Of Being Strange, Which Is At The Heart Of Every Creative Person. Every Writer, Every Actor, Every Director Knows Who Ripley Is. We've Made Careers And Lives Out Of Pretending, Making Things Up, Inhabiting Other People's Stories And Lives. That's What I Do Every Day. . . . The Story Is So Audacious And Subversive: A Central Character Who Behaves Badly And Isn't Apparently Caught. That Intrigued Me No End.

The Feeling Of Not Belonging, Of Not Being Entirely Worthy, Of Being Sometimes Hostage To Your Own Sensibilities. Those Things Speak To Me Very Personally.