It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

The writer is all alone.