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

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

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

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.