It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

I like having my own story remain my story.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

You're a writer. Make it up.