Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.