 One of the pleasures of my life was having the opportunity to write a novel many years ago. It was a fun thing. It was excruciating, but it was also fun. And I was talking at one time with some people who were asking me about writing this novel, and they said, how did you come up with an idea for a novel? A novel has to be dramatic and gripping and interesting and so on. And I said, well, I followed the advice of my publisher who said, write out of your own experience.