People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.