I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.