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I try to have a true line in every character I play.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.

I always have to bring back an all-A report card.