Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.
I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I’ve always been good at destroying things.
She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.
It’s been great getting better with you.
Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
People don’t want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they’re not responsible for, like disease or genetics.
I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.
I’ve been alone my whole life, I can’t do it anymore.
Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.
You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
Most of the time, it’s not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
We live in a world that’s very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history – many have always done.
To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.
I’m pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.
The point of what I do is that it doesn’t really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
To say that you can’t see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.
All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.