We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.