No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

There are certain jobs I don't take because I feel no connection to the person. But if somebody is open with me, and honest about their motivations, and has some level of self-awareness, then I'm going to understand them.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.