People talk about Obama in the same way 12-year-olds talk about Bieber, and speculate about what he and Michelle are like behind closed doors the sam…

- Teddy Wayne

I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his fa…

- Teddy Wayne

We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels on the subject. We have far more novels …

- Teddy Wayne

I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.

- Teddy Wayne

I think that most successful artists - not always, but a lot of them, in any field - have business savvy as well and have some sense of marketing acu…

- Teddy Wayne

For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvar…

- Teddy Wayne

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

- Teddy Wayne