No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.