Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

...it was more like bleeding than crying.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

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.

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

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.