You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.