The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

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