I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully, writing.

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.