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.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.