No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

I'm always geeking out about something.

He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.