I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.