All of my books come from pain.

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

I don't know why I write what I write.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.