Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.

I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.