Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

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

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.