If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.

Have fun storming the castle!

I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.