In A Way, It Made Him Sad.

Not Everyone Is As Nice As Us.

I Think Of A Book And A Play, Or A Book And A Movie, As Two Separate Things - I Don't Think Of It As My Novel Having A New Life.

Part Of Me Becomes The Characters I'm Writing About. I Think Readers Feel Like They Are There, The Way I Am, As A Result.

I Didn't Become A Good Writer Until I Learned How To Rewrite. And I Don't Just Mean Fixing Spelling And Adding A Comma. I Rewrite Each Of My Books Five Or Six Times, And Each Time I Change Huge Portions Of The Story.

When Anything Bad Happens To Me Or Someone I Know, I Always Know Who To Blame. My No-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.