Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.