John Searles Quotations

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.

My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.