We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.