Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.

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.

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.

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

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

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