Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.
It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.
I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.
They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.
I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.
