The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.