Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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.
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
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?'