If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all.

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.