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In Real Life, Coincidences Happen All The Time. In Novels, They Are Leapt Upon With Fury.

What I Want To Do Is Tell Stories About Normal People In The American Suburbs. I Don't Write The Book Where It's A Conspiracy Reaching The Prime Minister; I Don't Write The Book With The Big Serial Killer Who Lops Off Heads. My Setting Is A Very Placid Pool Of Suburbia, Family Life. And Within That I Can Make Pretty Big Splashes.

In Short, The Satisfaction Of Creating, Not Necessarily The Process, Always Lifts My Heart.

Hope Can Be The Most Wonderful Thing In The World Or It Can Crush Your Heart Like An Eggshell.

I Would Never Write A Memoir, Because It Would Be Too Boring.