As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.