It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

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

I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That was my after school job, believe it or not: I would read manuscripts and then evaluations on whether or not I thought they'd make good movies. Which was fascinating and kind of hilarious to me at the time.

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

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