I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that as a novelist you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now particularly at my age.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.