We understand more than we know.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.