Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that LA was absurd, worthy of ridicule and contempt. Most people seem to describe Los Angeles as elementally despicable, or as someplace that requires an apology.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

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