Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

There aren't many shy writers left.

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