I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

Do you always throw your money away like this?" "Only when I'm in love.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?