Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

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

People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

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