It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent narrative.
I like all of the books I work on to be ones you can pick up without knowing the entire history of the character, because then, not only can you enjoy it as is, but it encourages you to look into the history of that character and their world.
There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.
'AVP' is not trying to be 'Alien' or 'Aliens,' and it's not trying to be 'Predator.' Those are genius movies.
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.'
