No Good Ever Comes From

I Turned Down All The Requests For The Rights To The Books, For Years, Mostly Because They Wanted The Rights To The Characters, And To Turn It Into A Tv Series. This Would Have Allowed Them To Do Anything They Wanted With The Characters, And That Just Wasn't An Option For Me.

Better To Accept The Wretched Truth Than Struggle, Twisting To Make A Wish A Reality.

What Did Falling In Love Do For You? Can You Ever Really Explain It? It Filled Empty Spaces I Never Knew Were Empty. It Cured A Loneliness I Never Knew I Had. It Gave Me Joy. And Freedom. I Think That Was The Most Amazing Part. I Suddenly Felt Both Embraced And Freed At The Same Time.

A Good Journalist, As You Know, Is A Great Listener. And So's A Good Writer. And I Got To Listen To People For Almost 20 Years. That Serves Me Well, I Hope, When I Try To Understand How A Character Might Be Feeling, Or How They Might React.

Fear Lives In The Head. And Courage Lives In The Heart. The Job Is To Get From One To The Other.