I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.