Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

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.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

Story is about originality, not duplication