Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

The less you know, the less your children can learn from you, the more you know, the more they can also learn from you..

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

Eun Gi. Let's run away. I will go wherever you want. To where no one can find. Run away with me. Seo Eun Gi.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.