I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).

When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.

I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any issues I may be having. I *need* his head-nodding (he's an expert head-nodder).

I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them.

No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.