Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.