There Is Nothing You Can Do About

It's Only A Wonderful World If You Can Make It That Way. There Are No Street Signs Pointing To Paradise Road.

I Think There's A General Misconception That Anything Written Quickly Lacks Quality, And I Don't Believe That.

I've Been Able To Write At Least One Book A Year For 20 Years, And I Don't Think I Would've Had That Kind Of Drive If I Hadn't Come Out Of The Journalism Business.

I Feel I'm Functioning At Some Level As A Journalist Because Even Though I Write Fiction, I'm Trying To Get The World Accurate.

Now I'm Writing About Contemporary Los Angeles From Memory. My Process Was To Hang Out, Observe, Research What I Was Writing About, And Almost Immediately Go Back To My Office And Write Those Sections. So It Was A Very Close Transfer Between Observation And Writing.