I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar!

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.