I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

Once in a while there were things in screenwriting that taught me things for fiction. But there's nothing in screenwriting that teaches you anything for the theater. I'm not sure I've ever fully appreciated before how different a form theater is.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

We all have the same dreams.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.