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I tend to avoid melodrama. I ...

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.

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As a writer, I will tell you ...

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.

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That'?s a way to increase the...

That'?s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

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I wanted to write a story tha...

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

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I personally think that most ...

I personally think that most people, most of the time, do the right thing. I just believe this. Otherwise, the world would be chaos, and it's not.

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I have some art, but I am a h...

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.

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One of the exhilarating parts...

One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.

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It's easy to write something ...

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

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I'm not naive, I know that ba...

I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people wake up and they try to do what's right for their relationships, whether it's marriage or family. They try to do what's right for their job. They try to make a better world for those around them, and that's what I want to write about.

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Really good original ideas ar...

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

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There are always differences ...

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.

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If I tried to write long-hand...

If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.

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I consider myself foremost a ...

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

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The movies are fun, but I'm a...

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

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I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 ...

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.

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Love, after all, always said ...

Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

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And if you think that you're ...

And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago.

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Love doesn't mean anything if...

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.

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That she had somehow taken th...

That she had somehow taken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me then, but it did not. Instead, as she stood on the street with the rain coming down and mascara running onto her cheeks, all I could think was that I'd never seen anyone more beautiful.

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I'll think about you everyday...

I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.

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