If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.

They call me, The Sharkalator

You're lucky if you find something you like to do, and it's a miracle if somebody will pay you to do it.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the wind soaring way above everything , Slicing through the air like a Sword. Up and up until you feel like you can grab a star and hold it to your chest like a burning, Spiky thing

My thing is when we're doing a movie or TV show, I just want to go in and look at it and go, "That was great."

Have you ever been to Colorado?" I frowned. "Is that one of those square ones, in the middle?