Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's l...

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless...

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be...

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously s...

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of i...

I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And...

There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write roma...

The ideal mother, like the ideal marr...

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Ficti...

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and S...

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figur...

Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it s...