Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t.

Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.