And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.