A couple of exchanges from the interview:
What fictional character would you like to date, and why?Read the entire interview.
Howard Roark in the The Fountainhead. His independence and fearlessness are beyond sexy to me.
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Offer a favorite sentence or passage from another writer.
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
--Marshal Zeringue