I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.
I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on.
I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society.
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.
The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.
Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.
Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.
There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few.
Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.
The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.
Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.
I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.
When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.
It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.
