Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.