She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.