Author Aimee Bender, on being a novelist in a screenwriter town (she lives and writes in a Hollywood apartment):

"They don't know what to do with you. There's a lot of space for invention and reinvention. I like the freedom that offers.'' (New York Times Magazine)

(Her advice to writers: it's OK to check your e-mail in the morning, but if you let yourself go on the Internet, procrastination will occur. [tell me about it...])