All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.