You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

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.

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.