Why Are Tropes So Important in Our Fiction?

"I'm still partial to McDonald's and various chain, chain places to sit with a Coke and do my work," she says. "The kind of nice thing about going and working at some place like that is I didn't feel like I had pressure on me." She adds: "If I go sit in a coffee shop in Seattle, even now, it's like, oh my gosh, I feel like every other person there is writing a book"