wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.