He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

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.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

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.

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.