I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.