Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.

No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.

Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

I'm always geeking out about something.

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

Sometimes death is even better than to confess a secret.

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls