Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.

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.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.