Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Politics always change. Stories never do.