I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

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.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.