I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.