Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.

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

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

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

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

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.