I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.