If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

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.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.

The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. We don't always celebrate that enough, but without the writing, you can't do much. You got on a film sometimes, and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not.