“I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.”
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
I'm not a big sports fan.
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
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.
