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The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.
If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.