Most people like a little sex in their novels.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.