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

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

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

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from an artist I liked or trusted or who excited me. Maybe one of the songs is really poppy and you listen to it on the radio as a hit single and then more of the world is about to find out about this artist by buying the record.