You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?