Quotes About Author

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

I don't get the airplay that one in my position deserves. 'Twist and Shout' gets more airplay than 'The Twist,' and that's not right.

I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

I don't think I'm all that twisted in my life. I'm not like some tattooed filmmaker who, you know, hangs out on the Lower East Side and is part of some satanic cult or something.

When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

I've always said I'm less interested in twists as I am about escalation.

I don't have an Instagram or anything like that. I have Twitter for work and also to read my news.

I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.

I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.

I don't check Twitter as much or tweet as often because, honestly, sometimes social media is draining and brings out all of the negative things going on.

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

I love being on Twitter and interacting with different people. Also, I very dangerously love to go shopping online!

I'm a sucker for Thought Catalog. Shelby Fero is really funny on Twitter. And Patton Oswalt, he's sort of like a Twitter throb.

I have 265,000 followers on Twitter - before I was banned.

I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.