Sara Gruen

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.