Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies