You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

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

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.