Who are your favorite authors?
I admire anyone that writes well, but my favorites would have to be Jose Saramago, Orhan Pamuk, David Foster Wallace, Italo Calvino -- the list just goes on.
When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
I'm really never not writing in a way, since stuff is going on in my head that will continue on the page when I get to it, but I have to sleep, eat, shop. I have a life like most people. I travel when I can, I read, walk, swim, watch movies.
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