I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listeni...
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishi...
I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is ab...
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important t...
The house was the color of baby vomit.
This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
Hope is not a sin, neither is fidelity.
Hope is not a sin, and neither is fidelity.
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
I'd do it all over again.
The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.
The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
