Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.