Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to me, "Shut up and enjoy your money," and I think, OK, I'll shut up and enjoy my money, but why does Stephen King get to enjoy his money and get reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review?

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.