You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

Stay. Fight. Live. Take it. Cry. Cry. Cry.

I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.