If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.