Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It’s the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

I love you, ” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

It was during Latin that the Austro-Hungarians arrived with their dogs and zombies to kill everyone at the Eden College for Young Ladies.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.