Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

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Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.

I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.