All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.