I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin

All the world's a stage we're going through.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.