Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that the book lives on no matter what Hollywood does to your novel in terms of a film. Now, you try to be careful who you allow to do your film because nobody wants their novel to become a turkey movie. But, on the other hand, it is a crapshot anyway, because even the best people can make a bad film.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.