I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.

I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.

Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.