Quote

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

By embracing a label such as 'non-fiction,' the creative writing community has signaled to the world that what goes on in this genre is at best utilitarian and at worst an utter mystery. We have segregated the genre from art.

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.