The audience requires not information but drama.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.