I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'

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• Mona Simpson:

  It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy

• Mona Simpson:

  We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged

• Mona Simpson:

  'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

• Mona Simpson:

  We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's

• Mona Simpson:

  I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

• Mona Simpson:

  Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades

• Mona Simpson:

  I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father

• Mona Simpson:

  I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

• Mona Simpson:

  The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The lead

• Mona Simpson:

  I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to