As Frightening As This May Sound, What

The Greatest Sin For A Writer Is To Be Boring.

That's What People Do When They Find A Special Place That Wild And Full Of Life, They Trample It To Death.

When I'm Working On A Novel Of My Own, I Try To Read Mostly Nonfiction, Although Sometimes I Break Down And Peek At Something Else.

The Tv Commercials, Which Are Endless And Fairly Crass, Gave Birth To Brock, The Bad-lawyer Character In Razor Girl. In Real Life You Can Find Even Sleazier Examples Than Him.

Every Writer Scrounges For Inspiration In Different Places, And There's No Shame In Raiding The Headlines. It's Necessary, In Fact, When Attempting Contemporary Satire. Sharp-edged Humor Relies On Topical Reference Points.