I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.