I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Great minds sink alike, right?

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.