Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

Coffee goes great with sudden death.