Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.