John Searles

I always joke deep down I'm really a teenage girl on the inside.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.