“If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the In...” — Justin Cartwright Quote

“If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the Internet when I should be working. In the library, I can get an awful lot done in a couple of hours, but it can become quite sociable, which you have to watch out for. There are a lot of people you can pop out and have a coffee with.”

“When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike's, 'The Coup', which is set in Africa and will come as a delightful surprise to anyone who has only read his Americana.”

“The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.”

“Men are both bad and awful. And women are both bad and awful. And they can both be good and wonderful on both sides.”

“Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?”