One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

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

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.