I Really Wanted To Be A Musician,

Maybe That's What We Look For In The People We Love, The Spark Of Unhappiness We Think We Know How To Extinguish.

I'm Used To Adapting My Novels For Feature Film - It Can Be Challenging To Cut And Compress Three Or Four Hundred Pages Into Two Hours Of Dramatic Action.

I Write About Kids Growing Up, I Write A Lot About Schools And Parents, And All Of My Experiences With Those Things Have Been Suburban Experiences.

I Really Wanted To Be A Musician, But It Turned Out I Had No Sense Of Time.

My Wife And I Left New York When She Got Pregnant - We Just Thought It Would Be Really Hard To Stay In The City.