Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.