Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.
I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.