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.

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

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.

Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.