Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

Time's the thief of memory

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.