Are you ever afraid you’ll run out of ideas?

No, I will never run out of ideas. If you look at people’s faces in airports, cafes, on trains, in the street you can see stories written there. Is that man afraid his wife is unfaithful? Does that woman wish she had the courage to start dating again? It’s written everywhere if you look. I get ideas from conversations and listening to people. I think we all hope for the same things – a good, happy life, to be loved, to be successful, to be admired. Obviously, we can’t succeed in all of these things all the time and I suppose I write about that struggle where people fail as well as win. I never put real people in books. My father – a lawyer – urged me many years ago not to do that and I remembered his advice. But I get ideas from conversations and listening to people.