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Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
