Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized