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Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.