I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

You couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate almost everything.

I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural gifts lie, if I have any. I like to think hard about plots in TV shows and films.