You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.