So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.