I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office
“I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.”
“When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.”