You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

When people in my generation started to write, we did not actually have much of a movie industry, much of a theater scene, much of a television industry or other creative outlets. But we had a lot of aspiring writers. All that has changed. We now have a movie industry, television industry and lots of theater. But we have retained a large contingent of writers and a dedicated readership. The larger number of people in society who value writing, the larger number of good writers will be produced. That's my belief. It raises the bar.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.