Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.