"Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan."

"Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready."

"We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode."

"I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected."

"True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does."

"People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it."

"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

"So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker something that's truly about freedom."