There aren't many shy writers left.

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

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

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

It's the cynics who never get married.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books quite heartlessly, and sometimes found that readers were very upset by it.