It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.